As members of the Los Angeles Police Department’s SWAT team prepared to confront an armed suspect who had holed up in a downtown apartment building earlier this month, one of the highly trained ...

A former member of a Los Angeles police SWAT unit is alleging in a lawsuit that officers encouraged the use of deadly force and retaliated against him for speaking out against misconduct.

Did you know LAPD SWAT was the nation’s first SWAT team? Stood up in the late 1960’s, the Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team paved the road ahead for the rest of the nation’s SWAT teams.

The widow of a Los Angeles police SWAT officer killed during a Winnetka operation will do a book signing soon in Woodland Hills. Lisa Simmons’ book, “41D: Man of Valor,” tells the story of ...

Police body camera footage released Monday by the Los Angeles Police Department shows an hours-long standoff earlier this month in which a SWAT officer was shot near the face and a suspected ...

An internal report by the LAPD looked at all the SWAT team incidents over the past decade to determine whether "any potential problems or patterns exist in how the unit uses force." In this 2019 ...

CERRITOS, Calif. (KABC) -- SWAT officers with the Los Angeles Police Department arrested 16 narcotics suspects, including a Skid Row drug kingpin, while serving 20 search warrants in Cerritos ...

The LAPD SWAT team fired more than 30 rounds of tear gas into the business, blasting holes through doors, windows and walls in the process. Two days later, when the smoke cleared and Carlos was ...

As members of the Los Angeles Police Department's SWAT team prepared to confront an armed suspect who had holed up in a downtown apartment building earlier this month, one of the highly trained ...